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Antitrust and Competition

Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Are Completely Wrong About Section 230

Tim Wu
Abolishing Section 230 would not address disinformation and propaganda on social media nor charges of anti-conservative censorship. But its repeal would probably hurt startups...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook Could Be Heading Towards a Breakup

Hal Singer
Assuming Facebook’s acquisitions can be shown to have eliminated emerging rivals, reversing those acquisitions via divestiture—“the most important of antitrust remedies”—is the logical place...
Antitrust and Competition

Essential Platform Monopolies: Open Up, Then Undo

Nikolas Guggenberger
Digital platforms have become “economic toll bridges.” By treating them as essential facilities, we could help strengthen healthy competition online. It is high time to revive,...
Antitrust and Competition

“A Loaded Weapon”: Francis Fukuyama on the Political Power of Digital Platforms

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Francis Fukuyama discusses the political threat posed by digital platforms and why he believes a “middleware” solution would be...
Antitrust and Competition

What Should the Biden Administration’s Antitrust Agenda Look Like? A Roundtable

Asher Schechter
How will US antitrust policy look under President Joe Biden? We caught up with four antitrust experts—Jonathan Baker, Zephyr Teachout, William Kovacic, and Teddy...
Antitrust and Competition

The Useful Distraction of Section 230

David Carroll
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act. Remember Cambridge Analytica? A lot has happened...
Antitrust and Competition

Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy

Nicholas Lemann
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private Property and...
Antitrust and Competition

Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking

Randy Picker
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it seems.    “Change...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction

Nicolas Petit
Schumpeter’s indirect entry theory fits the average tendencies of competition in digital industries. When the model is added to standard assumptions and suspicions, a...
Antitrust and Competition

What Is Next for Section 230 Reform?

Harold Feld
Section 230 has faced scrutiny from President Donald Trump, the FCC, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the US Congress, and even President-elect Joe Biden,...
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